Last week were stolen 400gb of data from the spyware company called Hacking Team. This happened because there was a major Flash vulnerability that allowed hackers to execute malicious code on a target’s machine via a website. In a short time, Adobe released a patch to fix this problem, but, according to TechCrunch’s article: “Hacking Team Hacked“,

A further list, posted to Pastebin, claims to show the organization’s client list, which includes government agencies from Australia, Egypt, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Turkey and UAE. The Verge reported in 2013 that Hacking Team made a major push to lure U.S.-based clients, and according to this list, the FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency had engaged Hacking Team’s services at one point.

What should replace Flash? What is the best alternative?

According to Alex Stamos, HTML5 is the best alternative. And he suggest everyone to implement it as soon as possible.

@aloria Right. Nobody takes the time to rewrite their tools and upgrade to HTML5 because they expect Flash4Eva. Need a date to drive it.

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